Welcome!
That One Adventure Couple is a travel and adventure blog run by Alex and Katie Gensitskiy. We are a married couple who love to travel, adventure, serve others, and dream big together! On most days you can find us working away at making our travel and lifestyle goals a reality, but on other days you can find us cuddled up in bed reading books and munching away at snacks, exploring unique places near our home and hiking different trails.
In May of 2020 we welcomed our daughter Ariel Ella Gensitskiy into the world. We love to watch her grow, and explore the world. Our nickname for her is “Curious Ella” because she is so inquisitive. It’s been such a joy to be parents for the first time, and we are enjoying bring her on our wild adventures!
Living Life with Adventure
We see adventure in everything. Even in those tough moments of life when things aren’t going the way we want them to, when our home is a mess or when we aren’t getting along. During those times we remind each other that adventure isn’t always when it’s easy but also when it’s hard.
We call our blog That One Adventure Couple because it serves as a reminder that life must be lived as an adventure. Our hope is that when you read our blogs, you too will be inspired to live with a little more adventure. Whether it’s through how you’re raising your children, how big you are dreaming, or simply going on that road-trip you’ve been putting off.
Our Passion
You know what gets us fired up? Creating and working towards a lifestyle that will allow all of us to travel, adventure, serve, stay healthy and pursue our God-given dreams! We are passionate about encouraging and inspiring others to get outside and adventure more, live debt free, and pursue their own dream lifestyles!
How can we help you? Feel free to reach out, we’d love to jump on a call with you and work together on reaching the life of your dreams.
Here on our blog you will find posts on:
Destinations – What you can see and do in different places
Activities – Unique activities from around the world
Budgeting – Finance tips on how to save and budget, as well as a Financial Independence focus
Travel Tips – Tips on how to make travel work for you
Lifestyle – Things we learn, relationship, and more
Baby Stuff – We love being parents! Learn more about our amazing experience with a water birth, and midwives. As well how we are raising our wild child.
Van Life – At the end of June 2021 we finished building out a camper van and took off traveling in it. It hasn’t been easy, nor has it been perfect but so far we have been loving it!
A Little About Us
Alex was born in Ukraine, and was raised in Camas, Washington. His favorite activities include reading, writing, rock-climbing, hiking, and scuba diving. Alex’s specialty skills include working as an Electrician, budgeting, writing books/stories, making new friends and coming up with the most EPIC ideas!
Katie was born in Kyrgyzstan, and was raised in Spokane, Washington. She loves photography, rock-climbing, hiking, and scuba diving. Katie’s specialty skills are having an eye for capturing beautiful pictures, teaching kids, cooking healthy meals and having a passion to serve and dream big!
We got married on July 3rd 2015 and went on a one-month honeymoon in Thailand. The travel bug bit deep and we began making plans to travel around the world for one year.
After paying off the little bit of debt we had, and saving for two years we had enough to quit our jobs and begin traveling full time for a whole year. Our first one way flight was to Quito, Ecuador on September 2nd 2017.
We came back from our around the world trip in October 2018 and began planning for our next adventure. We bought an empty cargo van, and went back to work to save up for the conversion. While doing that we discovered Financial Independence, had a baby, and explored the state of Oregon.
In October of 2020 we began working in earnest on converting our cargo van, into an awesome adventure mobile. During the winter we moved in with Katie’s parents to save money on rent as well as to have a better working area. Finally at the end of June 2021 we were done and were ready to travel.
Our Mission
We believe in traveling and living with purpose. Instead of going from place to place in order to check it off the list, we make every effort to have in depth experiences in the countries and places we visit. This means we learn their culture, partake in local festivals and activities, and serve the local communities.
In addition, we believe that travel brings people together. We love to meet other travelers, as well as people living in the places we visit. With this in mind we aim to post content which will inspire you, and be helpful in your own journey.
Van life
After coming home from our world trip we couldn’t help but go after our next travel/lifestyle goal and that was to buy a van so that we can live and travel in it.
After doing some research, an opportunity came for us a to buy a van and we jumped on it. After focusing on other things for a season we were able to get back into converting it into the adventure mobile of our dreams. Check out our posts
Companies We Work With
To date we have worked with hotels, tour agencies, scuba dive shops, and product companies. We love all the companies we get to work with and stand behind their mission!
Our goal is to make every partnership a win-win-win, where we benefit, the company we work with benefits, and our audience benefits.
News Articles
Our story has been written about in a few different news articles which you can see below:
Engagement –
https://www.insideedition.com/headlines/9383-the-most-romantic-proposal-ever
World Trip –
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/jan/21/that-one-adventure-couple-is-taking-their-time-to-
We hope this has helped you get to know us better and join the adventure.
2 Comments
Wayne W Walls
November 25, 2019 at 3:42 amYour life sounds really fun and fulfilling! I hope to travel a lot more than I do currently some day!
Katie
December 3, 2019 at 7:40 pmThank you! Traveling is awesome and rewarding. You learn so much!